March 9, 2017 / Front Page

GARY BARKER of the Suttons Bay Bingham Fire & Rescue Department chainsaws a fallen tree Tuesday afternoon on Center Highway in Bingham Township. Fire Chief Jim Porter said the tree took out a secondary power line on its way down. More...

An attorney for Suttons Bay business owner Pam Leonard’s insurance company has filed a motion for a new trial based on juror misconduct. The petition seeks to overturn what is considered the largest personal injury settlement ever awarded More...

Northport Public School has placed the names of 24 students on its honor roll for the second marking period of the school year. Earning all A’s for the second marking period and first semester were juniors Emma Adams, Brett Dyer and Lilli More...

The Suttons Bay Bingham District Library has announced the spring lineup for its “Art Off the Shelf” program. Local poet Carrie Sharp hosts the program which features a questionand answer session with authors and artists. More...

Saving old pictures will be the theme of the next computer workshop at the Leland Library, set for next Thursday, March 16. Technical services librarian Mark Morton will cover how to scan and archive your old photographs and documents along wit More...

Students provide spark as Lakeshore sets January, February visitation records

By Patti Brandt BurgessOf The Enterprise staff

More than 1,200 elementary school students who hiked through the National Lakeshore this winter contributed to an explosion in the number of visitors so far this year. In all, a record 14,395 people visited the Lakeshore in January and 15,257 v More...

Unseasonable warm temperatures brought on what could be the earliest sap season in recent history. But a cool down last week — and about eight inches of snow — closed the sap spigot, reducing flow to a trickle and extending the map More...

Childish. That’s how we describe a series of events at a recent Empire Village Council meeting. The occasion called for filling three openings on the village Planning Commission, for which there apparently has been much interest. More...

Three arrests and two rollover accidents kept Leelanau County Sheriff’s deputies busy over the weekend. A 25-year-old Traverse City woman was arrested a little after midnight on Saturday after being stopped on M-72 near Gray Road in Elmwo More...

While high winds have constituted much of the weather story this week in Leelanau County, it’s sudden dropoffs in temperatures that have more potential this time of year to damage cherry and grape crops. So far, though, growers and agricu More...

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Michigan law requires local governments to inform their citizenry through public notices published in newspapers of record for their communities. These notices provide residents with an easy path for following the work of their elected officials. More...

The Glen Lake girls are two wins away from representing Leelanau County at the Breslin Center. I can’t say I’m surprised. Honestly, I’d be surprised if anyone who has really watched this team over the past two seasons was. More...

Organizations wishing to have their public events listed in this calendar can email Patti Brandt at patti@leelanaunews.com or call The Enterprise, 256-9827, before 5 p.m. Friday. TODAY 8:30-9:30 a.m. More...

An Omena couple made the TV news recently in the Palm Springs, Calif. area. As part of an almost sixweek road trip, Jim and Kathy Miller were in Palm Desert visiting her brother and sister-in-law, Frank and Deborah Kerrigan. More...